The hour badly spent

god is extra dead, shut up kansas, fixating on sex, convulsive hand-wringing, imagine my painNovember 17, 2008 9:29 pm

In a letter to the editor, fundie virgin Clareen O’Connor expressed shock and awe at a sex education ad.

I am profoundly disappointed in your decision to place an advertisement page promoting sex in one of last week’s papers. “MAJOR IN SEX AND YOU COULD SCORE $25,000” is boldly written on top as well as “and a $2 lift for your ‘studies’ plus trips, entertainment and other divisions to heighten your education.”

On the other side of the advertisement page is a drawing of a male with his arms around two females, all naked, with a blanket on them. The two females seem to be passing around products used for sex. Dotted lines leading from the sex products to these words: “Strawberries,” “Whip Cream,” and “Banana.”

Ha ha, "male with his arms around two females" sounds like she’s narrating something on the Discovery Channel. Anyway. Normally, I hate advertising in all its insidious forms and avatars. But I just don’t see the big f’ng deal here. Maybe that’s because I’m the biggest perv I know? Besides Madeline.

I was personally offended and shocked when my roommate, who was also put off when she saw it, showed it to me.

"Personally offended?" It’s not as though the ad came with a disclaimer, "Clareen O’Connor and her roommate are unpleasant people who you should never ever have sex with." Or would that have been better? I just don’t understand.

Sex among college students is already rampant enough as it is - why encourage it? Being a conservative Christian, I am strongly for abstinence before marriage. As such, I have decided to wait and keep my virginity.

Good for you, Clareen O’Connor. You and your Christian virginity are better than everyone else. It’s not like the mere suggestion of a threesome is enough to shake your faith.

It hurts me deeply that young people have this kind of lifestyle; that they do whatever “feels good” or satisfies their sexual drives during that certain moment in time. Uncommitted relationships lead to broken hearts and are not good for the soul or spirit.

You know what’s good for the soul and spirit? Haughty, judgemental Puritanism. That’s the only way to happiness. Clareen should know. She seems pretty happy.

If they have this kind of ruthless behavior, what will happen when they want to marry? How can they keep a committed relationship, which marriage is and requires if it is to last, if they haven’t held this kind of mindset or practiced such virtues? They will have nothing to give to their spouse since they spent and freely distributed their “love” to a variety of people and called them their boyfriends or girlfriends.

I was just talking to someone the other day about how many people avoid Christianity because they don’t want to be associated with naive, self-righteous prudes, and Clareen O’Connor just volunteered as Exhibit A. What enables her to go into these histrionics is that she profoundly missed the point of the ad. She looked at it with her Jesus glasses and couldn’t see anything beyond her own outrage. It was about sex education, not an invitation to the Houston 500. Why do you think she chose to see it that way?

[K-State Collegian]

everything old is new again, decline of civilization, collegianism, femiladyism, the k-state collegian is just a fancy blog, shut up kansas, fixating on sex, convulsive hand-wringing, imagine my painSeptember 17, 2008 3:18 pm

Whenever you go to the mall, you should just buy condoms along with everything; that gaudy purse, those shoes, that snazzy Sprint cellphone, those jeans. Especially if they’re Levi’s. That brand is just WAY TOO SEXY, according to Corene Brisendine.

On a scale of inappropriateness, sex in advertising has reached an all-time high.

At the movie theater or on prime-time television, consumers can watch a Levi’s Jeans commercial in horror.

The girl on screen appears to be between 12 and 14. She unbuttons her jeans and encourages a boy to do the same in an attempt to get him to do something he is not sure about.

It promotes not only teen sex but also the ideology that young girls must aggressively seek sex to be popular or liked by boys. The popularity this type of behavior promotes is not the type young women should be seeking.

Corene sounds like a lot of fun at parties.
Girls who behave in this manner will never find boys who like them for more than sex or who want to be with them for any length of time [ed. Note: FIND THE RIGHT BOY!!]. Advertisers are absolutely wrong for promoting it.
I’d say advertisers have done a good job. I own 700 Snorg Tees. Thanks, by the way, for "promoting" the "ideology" that all boys are always predatory, infantile jerks.

Why must sex be painted as some sort of automatic loss for girls? Isn’t it possible for a girl to get something out of it too? Is it possible for her to indicate so, by yelling "I win I win I win!" during orgasm?

Music videos are another form of advertising that have hit an all-time high of inappropriate dress and behavior. For example, Rihanna’s song "Disturbia" was enjoyable when it first came out.

However, after watching the music video of a woman dressed in a prostitute’s outfit, complete with fishnet pantyhose and a corset, it makes me sick to hear it.

It makes you sick? It’s a woman in skimpy clothes, not a crime scene. Haven’t rap/R&B videos looked exactly like this for the last 20 years? I haven’t seen Rihanna’s, but I can’t imagine it took much work. They probably just photoshopped her head into the "Baby Got Back" video and called it a day.
This video sends the message to teenagers that women must dress and act like prostitutes to be heard and recognized. Surely women are more intelligent than this video portrays.
Do I want to be recognized just for "intelligence?" That’s hard. You have to, like, read. And solve equations. And talk a lot. Which is pretty boring. And on some level, isn’t it another form of objectification? On occasion, I kind of like to just have sex, and maybe some women do too. Is that wrong? Taking my shirt off and making sexy dance moves is a lot easier than giving an art speech.

[Source: K-State Collegian]